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Growing Communities’ urban food-growing walking tour, Saturday 18 September

Join us on Saturday 18 September, when Growing Communities is running a walking tour taking in the Farmers’ Market and all our urban food-growing sites in Hackney. This includes a visit to our eco-building at Allens Gardens – which is listed as part of the architecture programme Open House London.

We’ll also be launching our newly commissioned map of Hackney by local designer Michael Georgiou, which shows all our organic growing sites and community box scheme pick-up points, as well as familiar landmarks around the borough.

The walking tour will visit all of our urban market gardens in Hackney parks (Clissold, Springfield and Allens Gardens) as well as our Patchwork Farm micro-sites at the Castle Climbing Centre and St Paul’s Church, which are not normally open to the public. There will be a chance to talk to tcartoon milkfloathe growers and find out more about organic and urban food production. The tour will include a light lunch and drink at the Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market.

If you don’t feel up to the full tour, all our sites are going to be open for the day from 10.30am till 4pm – so you can drop in at any time. It’s a great chance to see how Growing Communities creates its wonderful salad bags and to find out more about our approach to urban food production. Our small eco-building on the Allens Gardens site is also listed as part of the London-wide Open House weekend – where people can explore buildings not generally open to the public. We hope to be showing lots of new people around the delights of our eco-building’s sedum roof and composting toilet!

Places on the tour are limited: to reserve yours, email growcomm@growingcommunites.org or call 020 7502 7588. Cost will be £3 for the tour, which includes a drink and light lunch at the farmers’ market (children free).

We were shortlisted in the 2010 Observer Ethical Awards!

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